Cuff-holder.



PATENTED APR S. P. DUNLAP.

CUFF HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.19, 1905.

Witnesses Attorneys SAMUEL PALMER DUNLAP, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CUFF-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed August 19, 1905. Serial No. 274,885.

To all whom 7'15 may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL PALMER DUN- LAP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful (riff-Holder, of which the following is a speci lication.

This invention relates to cuff-holders, and is designed to provide a simple and improved device of this character capable of being conveniently engaged with the cuff, preferably with the rear buttonholes thereof, and also readily engaged with the lining of the coatsleeve, whereby the cuff may be conveniently adjusted to project any desired portion thereof below the lower edge of the coat-sleeve.

'ith these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the acconipanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the application of the present form of cuff-holder. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the cuff-holder of the present invention. Fig. 3 is a perspective view thereof, one of the jaw-plates being removed.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each and every figure of the drawings.

In the formation of the present cuff-holder I employ a stout spring-wire which is first folded intermediate of its ends and then its folded portion is twisted to form a spiral button 1, from which the opposite sides of the wire extend to form springshanks 2, disposed in a plane at substantially right angles to the general plane of the button and at one side thereof. The outer end portion of each shank 2 is bent to form a loop 3, disposed at substantially right angles to the shank. Dnplicate jaw-plates a are applied to the upper sides of the respective loops and secured thereto byhaving their longitudinal edges clamped or folded around the sides of theloops, as shown at 5. These jaw-plates may have any ornamental configuration, and their inner ends are normallyoverlapped and toothed, as at 6, to form a clamp for connection with the coat-sleeve.

In practice, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the spiral button is engaged with one or more of the rear buttonholes of the cuff 7, with the clamping-jaws upon the exterior of the cufl, after which the cuff is slipped upon the arm in the usual manner, and then the spring-jaws are spread and engaged with the lining 8 of the coat-sleeve 9. By this manner of attaching the cuff to the coatsleeve the cull is entirely independent of the shirt-sleeve, and it may be adjusted longitudinally of the sleeve so as to project any desired portion of the cuff below the bottom edge of the sleeve.

It will be noted that the present device includes only three separate members viz., the wire and the two plates, the wire constituting the spiral button and also the spring elements 2, which connect the jaws and the button, whereby the device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive and may be conveniently manipulated without any liability of its parts becoming separated.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A cuff-holder comprising a button formed by a wire coil, the ends of the wire being formed into spring-shanks, and cooperating jaws carried by the shanks.

2-. A cuff-holder comprising a spring-wire which is folded intermediate of its ends and has its folded portion bent to form a spiral button, the ends of the wire being formed into spring-shanks, and cooperating jaws carried by the shanks.

3. A cuff-holder comprising a spring-wire bent to form a button, the ends of the wire being formed into spring-shanks with their extremities bent into loops, and jaw-plates secured to the loops.

4. A cuff-holder comprising a spring-wire which is folded intermediate of its ends with its folded portion bent into a spiral button, the ends of the wire being formed into separate spring-shanks extending at substantially right angles to the general plane of the butmy own I have hereto aflixed signature ton With the free extremities of the shanks in the presence of tWo Witnesses. bent into-loops at substantially right an les to said shanks, and cooperating jaw-pla ues SAMUEL PALMER DUNLAP' 5 folded upon the loops With their inner ends i l/Vitnesses:

toothed. JAMES TURNooK,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as RICHARD E. DooLEY. 

